The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea.
ambivalency
amblyoscope
amblyoscope
noun
A reflecting stereoscope used to evaluate binocular vision
ambulancing
ambulancing
verb
present participle of ambulance
ambulomancy
ambulomancy
noun
Any of various forms of divination that involve walking, often in circles.
amicability
amicability
noun
The state or quality of being amicable or friendly.
amoebicidal
amoebicidal
adj
Relating to substances which could destroy amoebae.
archambault
assemblance
assemblance
noun
(obsolete) An assembling; assemblage.
(obsolete) Resemblance; likeness; appearance.
asymbolical
asymbolical
adj
Synonym of asymbolic
bachelordom
bachelordom
noun
The state of a male who is a bachelor, i.e. unwed.
bachelorism
bachelorism
noun
A manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors.
Bachelorhood.
bacilliform
bacilliform
adj
Shaped like a bacillus; rod-shaped
noun
Such a bacillus
balancement
balancement
noun
The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise.
balladromic
balmarcodes
beclamoring
beclamoring
verb
present participle of beclamor
biblioclasm
biblioclasm
noun
(rare) Destruction of books, especially of the Bible.
bibliomancy
bibliomancy
noun
Divination by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, especially from the Bible.
bimaculated
bimaculated
adj
Alternative form of bimaculate
bimetallics
bimetallics
noun
plural of bimetallic
bimolecular
bimolecular
adj
(chemistry) Relating to bimolecules
(chemistry, of a reaction) involving two molecules
consisting of two layers of molecules
biochemical
biochemical
adj
characterized by, produced by, or involving chemical processes in living organisms
of, or relating to biochemistry
noun
a chemical substance derived from a biological source
bioclimatic
bioclimatic
adj
(architecture) Focused on providing a comfortable microclimate.
Of or pertaining to the relationship between living things and climate.
biometrical
biometrical
adj
Of or pertaining to biometrics.
biracialism
biracialism
noun
A situation where two races of people are segregated.
bisacromial
bisacromial
adj
(anatomy) Relating to, or connecting the two acromial processes
blackamoors
blackamoors
noun
plural of blackamoor
blacklegism
blacklegism
noun
The character or actions of a blackleg.
blackmailed
blackmailed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blackmail
blackmailer
blackmailer
noun
Someone who blackmails.
blacksmiths
blacksmiths
noun
plural of blacksmith
blancmanger
blancmanger
noun
(historical) A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc.; blancmange.
blancmanges
blancmanges
noun
plural of blancmange
blastematic
blastematic
adj
(biology) Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.
blastocheme
blastomeric
blastomeric
adj
Relating to blastomeres.
blastomyces
blastomycin
blastomycin
noun
A sterile material, produced from cultures of the fungus Blastomyces, once used for intradermal testing
bleacherman
blockmaking
blockmaking
noun
The manufacture of blocks for use in printing.
The manufacture of nautical blocks.
bombastical
bombastical
adj
(archaic) bombastic
brachydomal
brahmanical
brahmanical
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the Brahman
Of or pertaining to the Brahmins or their doctrines or worship.
brahminical
brahminical
adj
Of or relating to brahmins or Brahmanism.
bromouracil
bromouracil
noun
A brominated derivative of uracil.
buphthalmic
buphthalmic
adj
Exhibiting, or relating to, buphthalmia.
cambricleaf
campbellism
campbellism
Proper noun
The
campbellite
campbellite
Noun
A member of any of various religious groups historically descended from the nineteenth-century Restoration Movement.
Adjective
Of or pertaining to any of these groups.
campbellton
campbeltown
candelabrum
candelabrum
noun
A candle holder.
cannibalism
cannibalism
noun
(figurative) An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.
In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. For example, "Look, an MIT shirt" for "Look, an MIT T-shirt".
The act of eating another of one's own species.
caramboling
caramboling
verb
present participle of carambole
carbolineum
carbolineum
noun
An oily, water-insoluble, flammable, dark brown coal tar mixture, formerly used to preserve wooden structures.
carbylamine
carbylamine
noun
(obsolete, chemistry) an isocyanide
catabolisms
catabolisms
noun
plural of catabolism
cerebralism
cerebralism
noun
(countable) Something cerebral.
(philosophy, uncountable) The doctrine that non-physical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only.
chamberlain
chamberlain
noun
(obsolete) An upper servant of an inn.
A high officer of state, as currently with the papal camerlengo, but normally now a mainly honorary title.
A senior royal official in charge of superintending the arrangement of domestic affairs and often charged with receiving and paying out money kept in the royal chamber, especially in the United Kingdom and in Denmark.
chloriambus
choliambist
choliambist
noun
One who writes in choliambic meter.
chromoblast
chromoblast
noun
An embryonic cell that develops into a pigment cell.
circumbasal
clabularium
clavicymbal
clavicymbal
noun
A early form of harpsichord
cobaltamine
collembolan
collembolan
noun
Any insect of the order Collembola, the springtails.
columbanian
columbaries
columbaries
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of columbary
columbarium
columbarium
noun
(historical) A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France.
A building, a vault or a similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains.